Wind-guard for motor-vehicles.



PATENTED JULY 31, 1906.

G. B. LEVY. WIND GUARD FOR MOTOR VEHICLES APPLICATION FILED DEO.16,1905.

BROTHERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA,

.A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

WIND-GUARD MOTOR-VEHICLES- I Specification of Letters Patent.

' l-atented July .31, 1906.

Application med December 16, 1906. Serial No. 292,082.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1,. GEoReEB. LEVY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Im- 1provement in Wind-Guards "forMotor-Veicles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to the construction of the frontpieces or .windguards of motor-vehicles; and my primary object 'is toprovide a guard of this character of an improved construction andthoroughly adapted to its purpose.

' The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 represents a'broken side eleva tional view of the front.portion of a motor-' vehicle equipped with my improved windguard Fig. 2,a perspective view, on an enlarged scale, showing theguard detached f omthe machine; Fig. 3, a horizontal section takenas indicated at line 3 ofFig. 2; Fig. 4, a horizontal section taken as indicated at line 4 ofFig. 2, and Fig. 5 a vertical section taken as indicated at line 5 ofFig. 2.

In the construction shown, A represents the front portion of thevehicle-body equipped .1 with the usual dash A, and B my improvedwind-guard adapted for connection w1th the body in ,the manner shown inFig. 1. r

The guard B preferably comprises a frame 6, formed of channel-bar andcomprising a.

top member I) and side members 72 a lower window I), having its sashsecured by screws b in the lower portions of the side members 6 and anupper slidable window b having its sash when in the closed positionsurmounting the sash of the lower window and lying in the same verticalplane. The flanges of the top and side members I)" b are turnedinwardly, as shown, thereby a'fi'ording guides for the sashes. Thevertical rails of the up per sash are cut away on their rear surfaces attheir outer edges, as shown at b" in Fig. 4. The rear flanges of themembers 6 are equipped with lugs b, which receive clamping-screws b. Asshown in Figs. 3. and 4, the vertical guides which the men'ibers I)aliord are of greater width than the thickness of the sashes, and thelower sash is secured in the front portions of the guides, so thatspacesb are provided in the rear of the lower sash to the lower sas when theupper sash is low ered to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig.3.

The guard may be connected with the vehicle-body in any suitable manner.ably the lower rail of the lower sash is recessed, as indicated at c, tofit over the curved dash, and clips 0 are attached to the rail andsecured by short bolts 0 to the dash, as shown in Fig. 5. The npperportions of the side members I) are joined by brace-rods 0" to the sideframe members 0 of the vehicle-body, the connections with the members 0being at a distance in front of the guard, as clearly appears from Flg.1.

The manner of use of the improved guard will be readily understood. Whenthe upper Preferwindow is in the raised position, it occupies the samevertical plane as the lower window, and its sash is clampedfirm-ly'against the Front flanges of the members b" 6 Thus a neatappearance is given to the device and the window is firmly clampedagainst move ment, which is of the utmost importance in this class ofconstruction. When it is desired to lower the upper window, the upperclamping-screws are unturned, and the 'window pressed rearwardly untilthe flanges b are in the plane of the guide-spaces Z), when the windowcan be lowered. After it is lowered the lower clamping-screws are turnedin to prevent rattlingi The frame of the guard may be formed by bendinga ch annel-bar to U-shaped form and brazing the lugs b on the rearflanges to re' ceive the clan'iping-screws, or the channelbar may becast in proper form.

Nhat I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

i in a wind-guani for motor-vehicles, the combination of a bentchannel-bar comprissash being shiftable to enable it to drop at the sideof thei'lower sash, and means forclamping the upper sash in its elevatedposition, for the purpose set forth.

' 2. In a wind-guard for motor vehioles the combination of a frameadapted to be secured to the vehicle-body, said frame having sidemembers with inturned' fianges,- clamping-sorews connected with the rearflanges of said side members, a flower sashfirmly secured in the frontportions of the channels at the lower end portions ofsaid side members,and an upper sash oocupyin in the elevated 7 position, the same verticalp ane as the lower sash, said up or sash having its side rails provldedwith anges of reduced eross-seotion,

enabling the upper sash to be moved rear- Wardly and dropped beside thelower sash,

for the purpose set forth. I

' GEORGE B. LEVY.

In presence of- W. B. DAVIES, J. H. LANDES.

